Hi. Complete Newbie Here...

[Mist001]

I'll be upfront with you all and tell you that I'm not a hardcore Star Trek fan. I joined because I have some Star Trek dialogue and I'd like to find out what episode it comes from. Google and ChatGPT aren't coming up with the answers, so I thought I'd ask the experts.

Here's the dialogue:

"Log of the starship enterprise star date 59 43.7"

"Captain Kirk, this is Lieutenant Uhura. Mister Spock is ready to patch in. Go ahead Mister Spock"

"I'm on the surface of the destroyed barbarian planet now Captain"

"Destroyed? What do you see Mister Spock?"

"The surviving inhabitants are in a dreadful condition. It seems they can't control their limbs and their minds are dull and useless"

And that's it. Can anyone help with this?

 

[Tosk]

5943.7 is from All Our Yesterdays, but it doesn't have an exchange like that in it.
They do say "barbarian" in that ep, but not remotely in the context that you're using. Spock says it to describe his ancestors.

Where does this dialogue actually come from? As in, is this something you wrote from memory, or is it in a book or movie or...something else?

 

[Mist001]

5943.7 is from All Our Yesterdays, but it doesn't have an exchange like that in it.
They do say "barbarian" in that ep, but not remotely in the context that you're using. Spock says it to describe his ancestors.

Where does this dialogue actually come from? As in, is this something you wrote from memory, or is it in a book or movie or...something else?

No, it's actually on a record by David Bowie, of all people.

Here's a YouTube link. You hear the dialogue at the very start:

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[Tosk]

Huh. I've never heard the song with that on it before.

Looking at the description on that video, it sure sounds like maybe they've added it themselves. So is the Trek intro part done with A.I. voices?

Also, that video was only just uploaded less than a day ago. So I assume it's actually yours and you're either testing us or just trying to "get it out there" maybe? If I'm mistaken, I apologize.

 

[Mist001]

No, the video is mine. I recorded the entire thing from the record so that people could hear the context in which I was hearing it. I'm tracing the history of these old records and this dialogue has me stumped.

It's not A.I. because the record is from 1974. Presumably, the dialogue would be from an episode that was made before 1974.

ChatGPT told me the episode was The Menagerie 1, but it isn't that. Then it said Yesteryear from the animated series, but it wasn't that. Then it said All Our Yesterdays and it wasn't that either, so I'm kind of at a loss.

The characters in the dialogue sound authentic, particularly Kirk and Spock, so I don't think it's faked, or that someone made it up by themselves and it sounds like TOS

 

[Tosk]

Okay, I see. If the dialogue is on a record from '74 then I have to wonder if the cast recorded it especially for Bowie. Or maybe it's from a game or audiobook, or some other outlier like that?

Chances are good that someone who actually knows what they're talking about will pop in soon and make me look like the guessing fool that I am.

 

[mb22]

It came from a circa 1974 radio anti-drug abuse public service commercial. It is on Youtube at

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It was transcribed in this 1974 issue of The Monster Times.

 

[feek61]

Yeah, none of that dialog is from an actual episode of TOS.

 

[mb22]

And I don't think was part of the Bowie song until someone added it on Youtube.

Does anyone know the background of this recording? The voices do sound like Shatner, Nimoy and Nichols'.

 

[Mist001]

It came from a circa 1974 radio anti-drug abuse public service commercial. It is on Youtube at

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It was transcribed in this 1974 issue of The Monster Times.

That is FANTASTIC!! Thank you very, VERY much!

 

[mb22]

That is FANTASTIC!! Thank you very, VERY much!

Really, it was just 'hiding in plain sight' the whole time. The dialog you quoted reminded me of that Monster Times piece I read when I was eight years years, and I checked a bit further and found the recording.

 

[Mist001]

And I don't think was part of the Bowie song until someone added it on Youtube.

Does anyone know the background of this recording? The voices do sound like Shatner, Nimoy and Nichols'.

It's not part of the song. It's a sort of segue which someone has added to a Bowie LP.

 

[mb22]

The voices sound authentic -- perhaps it was recorded while TAS was in production. There is also an anti-pollution themed PSA done during that time.

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